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While the inevitable move to Windows 7 has been on the horizon for IT departments for several years, it’s clear that migration projects continue to plague many IT professionals. RES Software commissioned its second Windows 7 migration survey in June 2012 to assess the progress of these implementations in relation to a previous benchmarking survey issued in 2010. The most recent survey captures data from more than 330 IT professionals in North America and Europe across multiple industries and job functions. The results have been analysed and are highlighted within this research brief.

"In a recent global survey conducted on behalf of Google Cloud in association with MIT SMR Custom Studio, respondents were asked: over the last two years, how has your overall confidence in the security of cloud applications and infrastructure changed?
The response was encouraging. 74% of respondents have become more confident in cloud security.
The age of unthinking fears about cloud security is over. Not only is cloud adoption rising steadily across geographies, industries and job functions, but confidence in cloud security is rising as well — to the point where increased security is a major reason enterprises opt for cloud solutions.
Download this report and find out more."

The world of business analytics is evolving rapidly, and while there are multiple emerging trends of note, two stand out as particularly impactful. First, there is an expanding and increasingly diverse audience of users that are becoming more analytically active. From mid-level Line-of-Business staff to senior executives on mahogany row, more users in more job functions are taking an increased level of ownership in the insight that fuels their decisions and the underlying data that supports that insight.

Spend more time building great apps and less time managing server infrastructure. Get your solutions to market faster using Azure Functions, a fully managed compute platform for processing data, integrating systems, and building simple APIs and microservices. In this e-book you’ll find use cases, hands-on steps, and tutorials for quickly configuring your own serverless environments. Explore best practices for Functions, and learn how to:
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Analytics has moved from the specialty of a dedicated few to a necessity for broad groups of business professionals to do their job. This white paper considers the use of analytics and business intelligence in the banking industry for improving decision making and the benefits of prebuilt analytic applications for achieving this objective across many functions in a banking organization.

For the human body to work at its full potential, it needs to be in good shape. Carrying excess fat, as we all know, leads to poor physical and mental performance, and the same could be said to be true of our workplaces. A healthy – and happy – office is one that is lean and fit, where the job in hand can be carried out with energy and efficiency, and where each part of the overall system functions effectively.

In our benchmark research, at least half of participants that use spreadsheets to support a business process routinely say that these tools make it difficult for them to do their job. Yet spreadsheets continue to dominate in a range of business functions and processes.
At the heart of the problem is a disconnect between what spreadsheets were originally designed to do, and how they are actually used today in corporations.

Polycom invited customers and partners around the world to participate in a survey that focused on collaboration challenges. More than 5,000 business professionals from all job levels, functions and vertical sectors responded, candidly sharing insights about their obstacles and the strategies they deploy to overcome them. Download the full survey report and discover why 85% of our respondents believe video conferencing helps them achieve their business goals, and find out how you can use technology to defy distance within your organization as well.

Attracting & retaining talent are two of the most important functions of an HR organization, but paper has a nasty habit of tying up HR resources and keeping HR professionals from getting the job done. Now imagine a paper-free workplace. It can happen with eSignature solutions. With eSignatures, organizations can sign, send, and approve documents anywhere, at any time and keep business moving forward.
Join this webinar to learn how you can transform key, paper-heavy functions like hiring, onboarding, and benefits enrollment to fast and secure digital experiences.

The goal of pervasive BI applications is to take the data that produced the back office ROI of more than 400% and deliver it to front-line employees in a form appropriate to their job functions – with similar results. There are thousands of business process steps in a typical enterprise where pervasive BI insights can be added. What are leading companies doing with pervasive BI?

The goal of pervasive BI applications is to take the data that produced the back office ROI of more than 400% and deliver it to front-line employees in a form appropriate to their job functions – with similar results. There are thousands of business process steps in a typical enterprise where pervasive BI insights can be added. What are leading companies doing with pervasive BI?

As the third in our series, this paper continues the effort of providing information that enables you to evaluate a deployment company and its Technology Rollout System intelligently so that you can realize the most cost-effective and time-efficient project deployment.

LinkedIn connections and groups foster a lot of interaction among professionals, who can discuss their respective industries and job functions. Learn more about the three main opportunities for you to become a master link builder on LinkedIn.

Download this survey to learn what 5,000 business professionals around the world say are their biggest collaboration challenges—and discover the strategies they deploy to overcome them.
In late 2013, Polycom invited customers and partners around the world to participate in a survey that focused on collaboration challenges. More than 5,000 business professionals from all job levels, functions and vertical sectors responded, candidly sharing insights about their obstacles and the strategies they deploy to overcome them.
The survey reveals that 85% of the respondents believe video conferencing helps them achieve their business goals. See how they successfully use video in their profession and how you can leverage technology to defy distance and improve remote collaboration within your organization as well.